Police: Airport lockdown followed drug shooting

TEMPE, Ariz. - An attempted drug transaction was behind a shooting that led to a three-hour lockdown of the busiest terminal at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, police said Friday.

Tempe police said the attempted drug transaction and shooting took place at a Tempe gas station Thursday afternoon.

Three suspects - two men and a woman - were pursued to the airport in nearby Phoenix where one man and the woman were quickly apprehended.

A second man remained at large for about three hours as hundreds of officers searched Terminal 4. He ultimately was found hiding in a parking garage.

The lockdown of the terminal, which is one of three at Sky Harbor, resulted in 25 flight cancellations and delays of others.

Tempe police Lt. Mike Pooley said the suspects were arrested and booked into jail on suspicion of multiple crimes.

They were identified by police as Layron Dejarnette, 25; Louis Anthony Clark, 25, and Rosetta Salazar, 18. It could not be immediately determined whether they have attorneys.

Pooley said the person who was shot during the alleged attempted drug transaction is hospitalized and expected to live.

The wounded person, who was not identified, was shot after he got into a suspect's vehicle at the gas station to conduct a drug transaction, Pooley said.

The wounded person was able to get out of the vehicle and run to a nearby apartment complex where police located him, Police said.